Where next for China?: User fees increase China's health challenges

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Global Health Systems: Pricing and User Fees

This chapter is concerned with the issue of user fees (or user charges) for public health services. We discuss the implications of user fees for cost-e¤ectiveness, allocative e¢ ciency, equity, progressivity of public health care spending, and quality of service. Each of these is a desirable end in itself, and so each is an important factor in the optimal pricing decision. They are not always c...

Migrating from user fees to social health insurance: exploring the prospects and challenges for hospital management

BACKGROUND In 2003 Ghana introduced a social health insurance scheme which resulted in the separation of purchasing of health services by the health insurance authority on the one hand and the provision of health services by hospitals at the other side of the spectrum. This separation has a lot of implications for managing accredited hospitals. This paper examines whether decoupling purchasing ...

Effective poultry programming in the next century. User fees for land grant universities-the Scottish experience.

In 1987 the U.K. government required the organizations through which it provided an extension service to adopt a cost-recovery system. Generally, this requirement applied to all advice with the exception of advice given in the areas of welfare, pollution control, and farm diversification. The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), which provided advice in Scotland at this time, adopted a strategy...

Where next for antibiotics?

Since the discovery of penicillin in the 1940s, antibiotic resistance among bacteria has been a growing problem. It has enabled major killers such as tubercu losis and pneumonia to stage comebacks in developed countries, and has led to multiple drug-resistant strains of bacteria that can be fatal for people with compromised immune systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that the s...